Null Tower, New York City A proper dinner is something rare for Noriko Null, given her preference to working absurd hours. Today is one of the rare occasions when she dines with her father Bob in the apartment he shares[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Stockholm City Hall, Sweden The Nobel Prize banquet is excruciatingly boring, at least to Noriko Null. Despite being at the center of attention, her mind is literally light-years away. Because of this, she doesn’t notice the man sitting next to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
HDS Demosthenes, geostationary orbit above Earth Noriko Null thought she’d seen it all: a dragon as big as Earth itself, Ancient Egyptian spaceships, planets with six Suns or where the sky is made of fire. When the doors to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
New York City may be “the city that never sleeps”, but the last few hours have been noticeably busy. The entire world is still frozen at -22°F, making airline traffic essentially impossible since there is no airport for safe landing,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Midgard Station, Antartica Noriko Null drinks the sixth espresso cup of the morning, looking at an interactive map of Earth. To use an understatement, it doesn’t look good. Now that the Endless Winter is no longer stabilizing the heat to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The White House, Washington D.C. President Keen slams his fist on the desk out of frustration: the live feedback from Egypt isn’t working anymore, and they’ve lost contact with the armed forces in the Mediterranean. <Does anything work around here!?>[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Noriko Null steps out of the Valkyrie shuttle, with a small jump that leads her to the rooftop; she couldn’t exactly bring the Ragnarok here, given its size. She’s carrying a lot with her: not just a backpack and a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Null Tower, New York City Todd Slate wakes up, realizing the lack of warmth on the other side of the bed. He sighs, pressing the button on the nightstand that controls the bedroom’s isolation from the rest of the Tower.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lower New York Bay With Manhattan floating above ground, hostage by a spaceship in the form of a black pyramid, the entire nation is in a state of emergency. Attacking the pyramid is the last resort: it could crash on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
United Nations Headquarters, New York City The General Assembly is in chaos, even more than usual. Not only a black pyramid has descended from the sky and is currently hovering above the city, but the three people that came out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
